August Adolph von Hennings

August Adolph von Hennings; painting by Jens Juel, 1780.

August Adolph von Hennings (19 July 1746, Pinneberg – 17 May 1826, Rantzau) was a politician, publicist and writer of the Age of Enlightenment, born into a Schleswig-Holstein family of lawyers. Active in Denmark and the German states, he was known as the "true apostle of the Enlightenment to the dukedoms"^[1] His elder sister Sophia (1742–1817) married the physician Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus.

References

↑ (German) Christian Degn: Die Herzogtümer im Gesamtstaat 1773 - 1830. In: Olaf Klose, Christian Degn (Hrsg.): Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins. Bd. 6 - 1721 - 1830. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1960, S. 163-407; S. 273.

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